ClipMate
wins "Best Application"
at the 2007 Shareware Industry Awards. We're proud to be recognized
by our peers in the software industry, for a FOURTH time!

ClipMate
"Portable" runs on your USB "thumb" drive!Now you can take ClipMate with you, to any Windows PC. Read More

User Testimonials

I am a webmaster, write articles, use copy and paste function serveral times to create sites.... This really saves me time and make my work a lot easier. It is one of the indispensable tools I work with.
Very reasonable price.
Thanks a lot!- Karl Smith

Privacy Statement

Thornsoft Development Inc., will
not engage in the selling or dissemination of any information
collected from this website (www.thornsoft.com,
www.clipmate.com,
www.clipboardextender.com
or other Thornsoft sites) to third parties. All information collected
from www.thornsoft.com shall be for the sole use of THORNSOFT
Development to improve our level of service.

About our cookies

You may have noticed that our site gave you a
cookie, or asked for a cookie. There is nothing sinister going on
here. We are simply using the cookie facility built into most
browsers, to track advertising effectiveness. We're trying to find
out if our advertising dollars are being well spent, so we're trying
to correlate clicking on a banner ad, with an eventual sale (which
could happen weeks later). We're using cookies to help us track
this. So, as you travel our site, your browser may be asked to store a
cookie or two.

In the interests of disclosure, here is what
we're storing:

The nickname of the page where you first
entered the site.

The referring URL (who sent you?)

How many times you've visited.

Whether or not you've visited the download
page.

As you see, there is nothing sneaky,
underhanded, or even very interesting here. We do not have any way of
correlating to who you are, how much you spend, etc.. And even if we
could, it is our policy to never sell any information about you to
anyone.

No Adware

No matter what your stance is on the current
adware controversy, rest assured, we use no adware technology in
ClipMate. We don't collect any click-through information, we don't
show banner ads in the product, nothing like that. And when you
uninstall ClipMate, it leaves no program files or DLLs behind.

"Calling Home"

If ClipMate detects that you are using a forged or otherwise
illegally obtained registration key, then it may "call home" to report
the theft. It uses standard HTTP communication to launch a web page
that records the illegal name/key combination, as well as the IP
address that you happen to be using when it reports. Since it
launches to a web page, it's obvious that it's "called home", and
nothing at all is going on behind your back. There is nothing covert
about it, and no personal information is being recorded. We use this
information to keep tabs on the level of piracy, to track unauthorized
dealers, and to make life a bit more miserable for those who would
rather steal from us than pay us our $35 license fee. This should not
be an issue for most users. But in the interest of full disclosure,
we needed to let you know that this technology does exist in ClipMate.

Technical: A simple URL call on
port 80, including the stolen key information and the program version.
No personal data is involved. The program does not phone home to
check anything. It does not, for example, phone home to a server to
check for blacklisted keys. It only phones home AFTER piracy has
been detected, by using logic that is already in the program to start
with.

This feature will NOT activate during the
30 -day evaluation - even if you exceed the evaluation period. This
only activates if you are attempting to use a stolen/pirated
registration key.

To summarize: If you have a
pirated/cracked/stolen/fraudulent registration key, then ClipMate may
"call home", on port 80, to report it. Otherwise, it
won't.

Network Licensing

ClipMate does a network check to see if the
current registration key is in use on other stations on the same local
area network. It does not go out on the internet, check our
severs, phone home, or otherwise cause internet traffic. It uses
a protocol known as "mail slots", which only travels on the local
network, and will not route onto the internet or other networks within
your site.

Bottom Line

Honest ClipMate users have nothing to fear from
doing online business with Thornsoft Development, Inc.